Sutra Art Workshop 2006:
Installation ‚PRISONED PEACE‘

II. Text of the description of the installation ‘Prisoned Peace’ as could be read by the visitors on the Open Day

On July 29, 2006 the works of the participating artists are shown on the Durbar Square (the square in front of the former King’s castle) in the centre of Patan. Thousands of people watched the art objects.
In the evening all objects and installations, according to the rules of the Triangle Network Organisation that none of the works should be commercial in any way, where either dismanteled or destroyed.

II. Text of the description of the installation ‘Prisoned Peace’ by Herbert Grammatikopoulos as could be read by the visitors on the Open Day

‘The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war’Erasmus

Heraklit taught us more than two thousand years ago: „Nothing endures but change“, so change is an ongoing never ending process and should lead us to something better, that change is all about. One unfortunately has still not changed at all: violence against the weaker, gried, war. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious or national conviction.

The installation ‘Prisoned Peace’

This object shall be just an international symbol against any form of violence. At the present, there are more than 50 wars or armed conflicts or permanent terrorist activities on our one and only planet ongoing, all in the name of something, each party concerned, proclaiming to be the right thing and to have a legal right to fight: in the name of god (any), in the name of peace, in the name of freedom, in the name of liberation, in the name of resistance, in the name of glory, in the name of self defence and many more.

Are you able to count down all the actually involved countries? Try!

The installation ‘Prisoned Peace’ consist of the following parts and materials: